Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Our double
standards re Mosul and Aleppo are quite chilling and quite frankly,
inexplicable. The West started all of this. We deposed Saddam Hussein, Mubarak
and Gadhafi. Our clueless politicians were cheerleaders for the Arab Spring,
which wiser heads deemed the Koranic Winter. We kick-started Isis. We gave hope
to the terrorist "rebels" in Syria that we would help them depose
Assad. We interfere everywhere whilst never understanding Islam. And witless
journalists just pour fuel on the all too predictable Islamic inferno.

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

The Daily Telegraph joins a long list of those who have submitted
before Islam. The following article was titled Muslims
Like Us is a wake-up call for Islamophobes everywhere which attracted some
173 comments, the vast majority of which though the DT was propagandising on
behalf of Islam. The article was about the ghastly BBC Muslim Big Brother show,
which really is all about pro-Islamic propaganda. Unfortunately, the Telegraph is now behind a pay-wall, so I
will reproduce the full article below.

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Before it had even aired, Muslims Like Us (BBC Two) generated the kind of
publicity that television producers would give their next commission for. The
format of pointing cameras at a group of 10 disparate Muslims brought together
under one roof gained immediate notoriety for including in its cast one Abdul
Haqq.

However, from the moment Haqq walked into the Apprentice-style
luxury rented accommodation and started handing out leaflets about how women
should dress, it was obvious he was not going to get very far spreading his
message among these housemates. What became immediately clear was that try as
he might – and boy was he trying – his fellow Muslims found him nuttier than
the fruitcake he doubtless regards as the food of Satan.

This was the fundamental (and fundamentalist)
point. For most of the housemates, Islam was a background comfort in their
lives, prayer an opportunity for contemplation. It was certainly not the excuse
for fascistic intolerance. These were good folk no more likely to be swayed by
Haqq’s dogmatic misreading of the Koran than would be the Archbishop of
Canterbury.

"Our
sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western
Christians, will also suffer in the near future. I lost my diocese to Islam. The
physical setting of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who
want us converted or dead. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth
nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because
you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims. Also you
are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost
of contradicting your principles. You think all men are equal, but that is not
true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their
values. If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims
of the enemy you have welcomed in your home.”

Our Prime Minister may be a Christian, but you could be forgiven for
believing that our Home Office is now an Islamic fiefdom. Why else ban the
Archbishop of Mosul from visiting the UK, but issue visas to Muslim preachers
who advocate the stoning of homosexuals?

It is an historic moment in the historic city of Mosul (bordering
Nineveh—the cradle of ancient civilisation). Over 100,000 Christians fled the Iraqi city in one night
after so-called Islamic State (Isis) launched a genocidal jihad against the
Christian population, who numbered two million in 2003. The entire population
was issued with a 24-hour ultimatum—convert to Islam or die.
Iraqi and Kurdish fighters supported by coalition air strikes are fighting
to free Mosul from the stranglehold of Isis in a knife-edged battle that
reminds me of Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade.

The Archbishops of Mosul and of the Nineveh valley, Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf
and Timothius Mousa Shamani should be hailed as heroes. In June, Archbishop
Nicodemus was in Strasbourg addressing the European Centre for Law & Justice on the
genocide facing one of the world’s oldest Christian communities.

But our Home Office slammed the door in their faces and told them there was no
room in the Immigration Inn, even though they were invited to attend the
consecration of the UK’s first Syriac Orthodox cathedral in London to which
Prime Minister Theresa May sent a letter to be read out to the
congregation. The Home Office also refused entry to Archbishop Selwanos
Boutros Alnemeh, the Archbishop of Homs and Hama in Syria.

Thursday, 8 December 2016

I write in
response to your recent career advertisement. I am a disabled Nigerian female
currently transitioning from a male body. People tell me I am physically
attractive despite my height-to-weight ratio of 4’6’’ and 20 stone. Bigoted and
prejudiced potential employers consider this a drawback, owing mainly to my
inability to actually get out of bed of a morning. This “fat-shaming” has
severely impacted on my mental well-being as I am sure you can imagine! I
possess all my own teeth and a garishly framed copy of my degree in Voodoo and
media-studies from Lagos University – which is certainly not a forgery I hasten
to add! My friends advise me the BBC is an equal opportunities employer seeking
to further their diverse work force, so I would like to apply for the post of
financial controller if I may. I won’t actually be able to attend an interview
in person of course, but rest assured I am more than capable of running the
show via a lap-top perched on a cushioned bed tray! I do hope you will drop
round for a chat about this, and would only add one further strand of diversity
into the equation – which is my political leanings toward Donald Trump and
capitalism. I’m sure such truly diverse employees are under-represented within
the BBC so I expect to hear a positive response from you in the very near
future!